jonathan, president obama still seems kind of wary of getting too deeply involved. >> yeah, and every expert will tell you, gregg, that that is largely because they don't know, the u.s. administration, what would come after the fall of president bashar al assad. they do not trust many of the rebels who have clearly been infiltrated by al qaeda and other islamist groups, although president obama will only say publicly that the slowness in reacting is all about coalition building and the rule of law. listen. >> if the u.s. goes in and attacks another country without a u.n. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work. >> president obama also said that, in his words, we are doing, quote, everything we can to put pressure on those who would kill innocent civilians. his critics would say, gregg, that the phrase "everything we c can" is far from the truth. >> and the violence and the suffering continues to get worse. >> and the most obvious example of that, of co